that I did...

a) boy would the world be dull
and
b) you'd be paying more taxes now and we wouldnt be in Iraq

doubt you'd still be happy.

Rove fell into no trap.
He meant what he said and vice versa.

"as I did, but I was there after 9/11, and I saw the marches, the pundits, and those leaders of the Left who insisted that violence wasn't the answer, "
I was there too. There were very very few

"and that we should be asking ourselves why such an attack would take place and what we did to bring it on."
even fewer, but that was your standard interpretation at the time of anyone on the left who for even one second thought "why?" as I recall.

" I can link to examples here, if you like. If not many Democratic politicians were saying the same things, it's largely because they were cowering in terror of their constituents."

This is crap, but I can't tell whether you know that or not.
You're using exactly the same brush, and for exactly the same effect.